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Big Creek construction

Description: Big Creek, including tunnel excavation, Bear Dam, Mono Dam, Mono-Bear siphon construction; Florence Lake Dam construction, Ward Tunnel spilling; Shaver Lake Dam construction, concrete mixing plant, first concrete, screening plant, Quarry, Powerhouse 2A construction, Stevenson Test Dam construction; Gauging San Joaquin River, Herminghaus Ranch.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1926 - 1928
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Big Creek

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Big Creek - tunnel excavation, Bear Dam, Mono Dam, Mono-Bear Siphon construction; Florence Lake Dam construction, Ward Tunnel spilling; Shaver Lake Dam construction, concrete mixing plant, first concrete, screening plant, Quarry, Powerhouse 2A construction, Stevenson Test Dam construction; Gauging San Joaquin River, Herminghaus Ranch.

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Big Creek: Shaver Lake No. 2

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Shaver Lake No. 2. Shaver Dam construction, including excavation, forms, concrete placement, diversions, Shaver Lake and old dam, aggregate conveyor belt, old dam and intake to Shaver Tunnel, quarry, duplex valve near Dam 2, Bear diversion dam, construction of Shaver Dam, finished dam showing areas with some leakage.

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Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam

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Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - Ward Tunnel outlet, repair screening & concrete mixing plant.

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F.P.C. Vol. 1, Projects 67 and 120 - Construction of Florence Lake Dam, Florence Tunnel, & Mono-Bear Diversion

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Florence Reservoir, Florence Tunnel, and Mono-Bear. Views include Big Creek Canyon; Florence Lake Dam site, including diamond drilling, clearing site, crib dam; Florence Lake Dam construction, forms construction; Florence Tunnel intake, tunnel excavation; Mono Dam construction: Mono-Bear junction; Mono-Bear siphon construction.

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Kern River No. 1

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Kern River No. 1, including site for Democrat Dam; Dam construction and drainage tower; intake; dam spilling; Construction at Camp 4; Kern River Canyon, hospital, tunnel workers, tunnel portal, concrete mixing plant, concrete flume, tunnel automobiles; Camp 1, penstock construction, branch pipes, Powerhouse construction, machinery transport to site, assembly of units in powerhouse, placing "Y" piece, main water valve needle, exciter needle, impulse wheel and buckets, transformers, tailrace construction, original spillway, towers and erect insulators, transmission line; Tejon, Castaic and Fernando Substations, Los Angeles No. 3 Steam Plant.

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Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 3 (part 1)

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Photographs of Powerhouse No. 3, Part 1. Construction photographs of first forms up on powerhouse, staging and concrete plant, Switching Station, powerhouse steel framework, generator floor, draft tube construction, incline, views from above, penstock construction, Tunnel 3, CO2 equipment on Unit 3, Penstock binding, dispatcher's building, manifold assembly, oil circuit breakers, transformers, Dam 6 spilling, completed Powerhouse 3.

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